Monthly Archive for November, 2006

: November, 2006

With National Novel Writing Month well under way — you can check in on how our aspiring novel-in-30-days folks are doing — I’d like to share an amusing insight on the writing process from Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson: …

In an interesting triumph of quality over quantity, Technorati’s attempts to filter out spam blogs are eating away at the blogosphere’s meteoric growth rates, according to the company’s quarterly “State of the Blogosphere” report. …

Given all the angst over how to define the squishy thing called “Web 2.0,” do average people have any idea what it is? My colleague John Cook decided to find out by interviewing random folks outside a Seattle restaurant. …

The Internet makes it much easier to speak ill of the dead, too, The New York Times reports. In fact, interactive obituaries site Leagcy.com — which powers the death notices for our own NWclassifieds.com among others — dedicates 30 percent of its budget and 45 of its 75 employees to screening “the 18,000 notes sent daily about the newly deceased, hoping to catch the backhanded compliments, meanspirited innuendo and airing of dark family secrets.” …

Daily newspaper circulation continues to drop nationwide — an average of 2.8 percent for the six months ended Sept. 30. The Project for Excellence in Journalism takes a deeper look at the latest numbers and finds “the overall economic picture even a little bleaker.” It also points out some weaknesses in the much-hyped pronouncements about how newspapers’ online audiences are growing. …

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